| Article ID: | iaor1989524 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 739 |
| End Page Number: | 751 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1987 |
| Journal: | Environment and Planning A |
| Authors: | Popkov Yu.S. |
| Keywords: | biology, geography & environment |
The author considers a class of macrosystems where the relaxation time of the distribution process of elements is significantly less than the relaxation time of the self-reproduction process. The proposed model of such macrosystems defines the system of differential equations with nonlinearity generated by the solution of a mathematical programming problem with an entropy objective function. Methods for the structural analysis of this model are considered, and applications to demographic modelling, biological dynamics, and chemical kinetics are given.